Punk heralded the arrival of trailblazer upon trailblazer, but none were more groundbreaking than the young woman in a vintage twin set and strands of pearls who didn’t think of herself as a punk at all.
Born Marianne Elliott, her...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard possess a back catalogue sizeable enough that they could have been going as long as psychedelia itself. Yet all seventeen albums date from the last ten years. The Australian sextet are often described...
Noname - 'Rainforest'
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“Man, fuck a billionaire!” With her first track since 2020’s ‘Song 33’, ‘Rainforest’ sees Noname at her tenacious best: anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and with a whole stack of talent. From Dr. Seuss and Biggie references to name-dropping Marxist...
Right as we're all (tentatively) rejoicing over the news that we might actually be able to get to a gig this year, 2021 decided to deal music fans another blow with the news that Daft Punk, one of the...
For all of the confessional and twisted songwriting that has permeated her work, Billie Eilish has always held on to a deep level of privacy over her personal life. So it was perhaps surprising to hear that she'd agreed...
Five years ago, on February 26 2016, The 1975’s second album arrived in a striking blaze of pink neon.
‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It’ was an epic, theatrical reinvention...
“I don’t wanna be the old guy on the block talking about what once was, and that’s why I search for new moments,” Ghetts said in the run-up to his first major label release, ‘Conflict Of Interest’. The 36-year-old...
There are few modern bands for whom we could realistically tell you that their comeback track sounds like A) a thwacking, thundering juggernaut, B) a subtle, slow-building, almost religious experience or C) a cheeky, sling-your-arm-around-your-mates jubilant bop and all...
If news of Daft Punk’s split left a helmet-shaped hole in your heart, the debut album ‘times’ from SG Lewis may offer some consolation. The British producer's first full-length release revels in the legacy of the electronic duo, to...
The 1990s and 2000s were a gold mine for cheating songs (what on earth was in the water?) and two genres reign supreme here: country music and R&B. All the greats should have at least one song about smashing...